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been many women, men and children in the vicinity only minutes before. And as far as I knew, these people were from the same family of the ghost woman and they had appeared momentarily in the physical world, for my benefit.
The meaning of my experience with the ghost woman and other astral beings whom I have encountered is that they can exist in the physical world and they will draw energy from you, weaken you and even try to destroy you if you are not strong. When I invaded the territory of the ghost family in my toilet practices, and the old woman appeared to me, I became very weakened. But because I have knowledge of my energy body and I used a powerful mantra, I became strong again. Since ghosts have no physical form, they must draw energy from our own physical body to appear. If the ghost is a woman, then the pull and threat to my being is greater. But if you have knowledge of the higher, middle and lower energy centers of the body, then you can control the flow of energy through consciousness, restoring and regenerating yourself just as the yogi does. Although ghosts exist at the astral or middle level of consciousness, we, who are still human beings, have a physical body and we can experience the highest states of consciousness, become enlightened and achieve the knowledge that is necessary for total liberation. Ghosts cannot.
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